Word: roughnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into a thoughtful book, Marijuana-The New Prohibition (World; $8.50). After weighing the medical and sociological aspects of marijuana, Kaplan uses the cold analysis of a corporate controller to conclude that the financial and social costs of trying to outlaw marijuana are far greater than the benefits. As a rough equivalent to alcohol, Kaplan says, marijuana should be handled in ways that profit from the nation's experience with Prohibition...
Coolly Competent. Moorer is a logical choice to chair the Joint Chiefs. A coolly competent officer who earned his early reputation as a pilot during World War II, the soft-spoken admiral has seen some rough sailing in his career. Patrolling the Pacific in his PBY, he was shot down by the Japanese and wounded in the hip. He reached safety only after surviving another Japanese attack. Decorated for his war service, he rose quickly through the ranks, taking command of the U.S. Seventh Fleet in 1962, the Pacific Fleet two years later. In 1965 he was named commander...
...winds and wiles of Hazeltine. He was in trouble only twice, both times on the wicked 17th hole-a crooked par four that called for an iron off the tee and swim fins to reach a green surrounded by two ponds. Twice Tony drove wildly into the deep rough; twice he boldly punched out of the trees and hit the green. Jacklin's 281 total bested Runner-Up Hill by seven strokes -the widest winning margin in 49 years of Open play...
...left of Italy's established Communist Party, the mavericks spurn alliances with traditional unions, and have as their avowed aim the toppling of capitalism. While they ardently admire the Peking government, their name comes not from an official link with Red China but from their rough tactics and revolutionary chants, which resemble those once used by Chairman Mao's Red Guards. The Maoist technique: coordinated production tie-ups at key points to bring an entire department to a standstill. One day will see a flash strike in a mechanical-equipment shop, the next, a two-hour stoppage...
...members, making up the largest U.S. Protestant denomination, are the fabric of the now somewhat frayed Bible Belt that arcs from California to Virginia. In folklore-and partly in fact-they stand as stern exponents of a Scripture understood in literal terms and a life lived by rough-hewn moral precepts. Last week the 13,500 "messengers" who gathered in Denver for the SBC's 125th anniversary meeting* seemed to be running true to type. They filled the air with gospel singing and crowded onstage to deliver fervent "testimonies" before a background painted in Sunday-school pastels...